1980 - UK No 1 - The Special A.K.A Live EP - The Specials. USA No 1 - Rock With You - Michael Jackson.
1981 - Band leader and Rock 'n' Roll pioneer Bill Haley dies at age 55. Polish Prime Minister Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.
1984 - Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies
1985 - UK No 1 - I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson. USA No 1 - I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
1989 - Polish archaeologists claimed to have unearthed the world’s oldest boomerang thought to be 23,000 years old.